# 2026年10月21日(水) ナイツ ザ・ラジオショー(パートナー安藤なつ)

- Show: ナイツ ザ・ラジオショー【最新回のみ】
- Published: 2026-10-22
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- Source: Edited from a machine transcript of the first 30 minutes of the episode. Not an official summary.

Mêpuru Chōgōkin (メイプル超合金) comedian Ando Natsu returned as guest on Knights the Radio Show (ナイツ ザ・ラジオショー) for the October 21 episode, bringing a frying-pan-cooked matsutake rice dish as her second annual "autumn announcement." The conversation ranged from autumn seasonal foods to a behind-the-scenes sumo stable chanko story from Ariyoshi Zemi (有吉ゼミ), a shocking revelation about wrestlers microwaving Lady Borden ice cream during tournaments, and a comedy bit about Hanawa waiting to be drafted by an NPB team.

## What this episode answers

### What is Ando Natsu's annual "autumn announcement" on this show?

She brings matsutake rice cooked in a frying pan. Last year she did the same thing, and Tsuchiya feigned forgetfulness — asking "Did you cook that last year? Do you remember?" — which prompted Natsu to retort "Of course I remember," building into a comedy exchange.

### What was the sumo stable chanko episode featured on Ariyoshi Zemi?

A 37-year-old lower-ranked wrestler (jonokuchi) at a sumo stable was celebrated as a legendary chanko chief; his designated 10-year-veteran successor had every menu proposal rejected by the stable master, including chicken wings and potato salad both dismissed as "too hot for summer," with the final menu settling on warm udon and cold soup (hiyajiru) — later revealed to be intentional so the udon broth could be repurposed for the cold soup.

### Why do wrestlers warm up Lady Borden to drink during tournaments?

Intense training during tournaments causes wrestlers to lose weight rapidly, so they heat Lady Borden ice cream in the microwave to create a lukewarm shake that quickly replenishes fat and sugar; Hanawa learned this directly when Hanada Miyabi (花田雅) visited the studio, and noted that the most welcomed gift for wrestlers is "rice, first and foremost."

### What is "on-rei" (hot-and-cold) eating, and what examples were given?

On-rei refers to combining hot and cold foods or drinks at the same time; examples given included Wiener coffee, cold egg-soy sauce over warm rice, and washing down piping-hot takoyaki with cold alcohol — the conclusion was "we are always enjoying hot-and-cold."

### What annual tradition does Hanawa perform on NPB Draft Day?

Inherited from a senior comedian since his college days, Hanawa dresses in a suit and performs a "waiting to be drafted" gag during the live NPB draft broadcast every year; this year he plans to stream it from home, and also floated a Nobel Literature Prize version where he arranges his own books and announces "I wasn't selected either," in the style of a Haruki Murakami fan.

## Article

## Ando Natsu's "Autumn Announcement" and Matsutake Rice

The episode opened with a note that the studio air conditioning had dropped all the way to 18°C before guest Ando Natsu (安藤なつ) of Mêpuru Chōgōkin made her entrance. For the second year running she arrived with matsutake rice cooked in a frying pan, billing it as her "autumn announcement" (秋のお知らせ). Tsuchiya played dumb — "Did you cook that last year? Do you remember?" — and Natsu called him out immediately: "Of course I remember, though I have my doubts about you." Hanawa's flat-voiced "I totally remember" drew the response "That's so transparent, you're like a kabuki actor," layering laughs before the show had barely started.

## Deep Dive into Autumn Ingredients: Saury, Salmon, and Daikon

The matsutake rice sparked a broader conversation about autumn foods. A discussion of salmon led to the question of why Pacific saury (sanma) comes in different sizes, arriving at the theory that "maybe the big ones we think taste best simply can't grow any larger." Someone admitted that after serving a small saury at home they thought, "We should have let it swim a little longer." Grated daikon with soy sauce over rice came up as a deceptively simple dish, prompting the verdict: "Daikon is a utility player — its flavour completely changes depending on how you cut it." When the group tried to rank their favourite daikon dishes — buri daikon, mizore nabe, oden — the conversation settled on "oden daikon is probably the greatest," which naturally led to convenience-store oden.

## The Sumo Stable Chanko Episode from Ariyoshi Zemi

Hanawa recounted a segment from the variety programme Ariyoshi Zemi (有吉ゼミ) that followed the kitchen of a sumo stable. The star of the piece was a 37-year-old jonokuchi (lowest active division) wrestler who had become known as a legendary chanko chief: he removed every eye and belly-thread from each dried sardine (niboshi) by hand before spending a full hour drawing the stock. The stable master had designated a 10-year-veteran wrestler as the successor, but every menu the younger man proposed was shot down with "all wrong." Chicken wings for the Nagoya tournament? "Too hot." Potato salad? "Too hot." The final menu ended up being warm udon and cold soup (hiyajiru) — a combination so simple it puzzled the studio. The mystery resolved itself when a later voiceover revealed the stable master's logic: the udon broth could be carried straight over into the hiyajiru, making what had seemed arbitrary rejections into a single coherent plan.

Ando Natsu connected this to her own experience watching the King of Conte finals with comedian friends: she had made a three-stage dinner of grilled eggplant, then chicken stir-fried with mapo eggplant sauce, then a finishing spaghetti aglio e olio using the leftover sauce — the same "linked broth" philosophy as the chanko chief, just in an apartment kitchen.

## Warming Lady Borden During Tournaments and the Hot-Cold Discussion

A mention that Hanada Miyabi (花田雅) had stopped by during a commercial break opened up the topic of what wrestlers actually eat during a tournament. Because gruelling practice sessions burn through weight fast, wrestlers reportedly microwave Lady Borden ice cream until it becomes a lukewarm shake and drink it down in one go to rush fat and sugar back into the body. The group said they had tasted it and confirmed "it was actually good by the end." Asked what gift they appreciate most, the answer was unambiguous: "Rice. That goes first."

From there the conversation pivoted to the pleasure of pairing hot things with cold things — "on-rei" (温冷). The list grew quickly: Wiener coffee, cold egg-soy sauce cracked over steaming rice, piping-hot takoyaki chased with an ice-cold drink. "Even salad dressing is hot-and-cold," someone noted. The conclusion: "We are always enjoying hot-and-cold without even realising it."

## Hanawa's Draft Day "Waiting to Be Drafted" Tradition and Show Info

Hanawa realised mid-conversation that he could not remember what he had planned for the following Thursday evening. A check with his manager revealed he had signed himself up to livestream himself sitting in a suit, waiting to be called during the NPB Draft — a gag he inherited from a senior comedian back in university and has performed every year since. This year the stream would come from his home. He also floated a new variation: arranging copies of his own book on camera during the Nobel Prize in Literature announcement and intoning "I wasn't selected either," in the manner of fans who gather Haruki Murakami's novels while waiting for his name to be called — and then wasn't.

The episode closed with upcoming guest announcements: Thursday features Kaname Stone (カナメストーン, first half) and Black Mayonnaise's Kosugi (ブラックマヨネーズ・小杉, second half); Friday brings Chihara Brothers (千原兄弟); Saturday, Degawa Tetsuro (出川哲朗); and the following Wednesday, actor Okabe Takashi (岡部隆). A merchandise segment spotlighted a nail file from the following programme — triggering the admission that Knights themselves have almost no merch — and the group floated ideas including a mini mirror and cotton swabs.

## Takeaways

- Ando Natsu's frying-pan matsutake rice has now appeared two years running, and combined with Tsuchiya's rehearsed forgetfulness it is shaping up into a recurring comedy routine.
- The Ariyoshi Zemi sumo chanko segment landed because its structure paid off: the stable master who seemed to reject every idea arbitrarily turned out to have a single, elegant culinary logic connecting all his decisions.
- Hanawa's most memorable moment was discovering mid-show that he had completely forgotten his own annual tradition of livestreaming himself "waiting to be drafted" on NPB Draft Day.